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Where Love & Life Meet
I’M (ALMOST) BACK! After a 2,100 mile move from my Iowa hometown to Atlantic Canada last summer, I’ve settled into the Nova Scotia home and haven where the worlds my characters live, love, and cope with conflict are created. WHAT’S Continue reading Hello Again
IT’S HERE! By popular request from my book loving readers – The paperback version of Tales from Heartland – 4 short stories (NEW – Adele’s New Life in Love added to the original 3 short stories in the Kindle version) Continue reading 4 Tales From Heartland + Love Unlikely
Where do you get your ideas? Whether at a workshop I lead, an author panel I’m on, or meeting readers one-on-one at a book signing, I almost always get asked that question. Here’s my short answer: Look around and Continue reading Spotting Ideas
It’s mid-January and the resolve behind those New Year’s resolutions has dissolved, replaced by reasonable excuses. Most of these dismissive rationalizations involve time, or rather the perceived lack of it. I tried, we tell ourselves and others. I want to Continue reading Resolve Depends on You
The fashion-defying old boots I wore for warmth self-destructed on my 62nd birthday. Flakes of crumbling faux leather I left behind lately whenever I zipped my feet into the comfort of weatherproof Totes with fleece lining left clues on my Continue reading Fashion Treads
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, Continue reading No Fat Here
Crime novelist extraordinaire Mickey Spillane said it best. The first page sells the book. The last page sells the next book. Finesse the six elements of fiction – character, plot, setting, point of view, theme and style – and you’ll Continue reading How to Hook Readers
The cozy mystery I’d just finished reading reminded me of characters in “Moonlighting,” a TV series in the 1980s about an out-of-work model who brings in a partner to a detective agency she owns. My newbie private investigators, unlucky-in-love and Continue reading Mystery “UnMatchables” Surprise
Looking for that sweet-to-sizzling mid-summer read? Top up your beverage of choice, settle into your favorite chair and cushions, in the sun, on the porch or indoor reading nook, and get ready for romance! “Rachel, you are the most beautiful Continue reading Romance Novella “Love Unlikely”
Where would authors and readers be without libraries – those storied gathering places that connect us to each other and the written word? My Fall Frenzy tour began Indie Author Day at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, continued at a Continue reading Fall Frenzy